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Examines the shifting social constructions of race, ethnicity, and identity in the local context of the Melungeons

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Race, Identity, and the Melungeon Legend
Chapter 1: Inventing the Melungeons
Chapter 2: Melungeons and Media Representation
Chapter 3: Playing the First Melungeons
Chapter 4: Becoming Melungeon
Chapter 5: The Mediterranean Mystique
Chapter 6: The Melungeon Core
Closing Thoughts
Appendix 1: Melungeon Questionnaire
Appendix 2: Media Articles
Notes
Works Cited
Index

About the Author

Melissa Schrift is an associate professor of anthropology at East Tennessee State University. She is the author of Biography of a Chairman Mao Badge: The Creation and Mass Consumption of a Personality Cult.

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"Schrift has produced an important piece of scholarship about a new American ethnic identity."-Susan Keefe, Appalachian Journal "Becoming Melungeon will be vital to anyone interested in Melungeons."-Philip E. Coyle, Folklore

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